RSVP for DFA & MoveOn's call with Elizabeth Warren

[think]

RSVP for DFA & MoveOn's call with Elizabeth Warren
Wednesday, June 10, at 9pm ET / 6pm PT



Join DFA and MoveOn on Wednesday, June 10 at 9pm ET for our exclusive call with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. We will discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Fast Track, and how progressives can work together to stand up for working families and change the game in Washington and beyond.

Source:
http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/EWcall_061015/?t=2&akid=6275.1922199.iYnv96

[RiverLover]

1. Thanks for posting think!

Will I "see" you there? Should be a good call. I hope it rallies the troops, it should!!

[think]

2. YW. Sorry I probably won't be on the phone call in.

Hoping that people who do join the call in will enjoy it though!

[RiverLover]

3. I don't know if it will be enjoyable. I'm guessing, for me, its just going to get me more

pissed off about the TPP. I do need to call the congresswoman for my district though. She's a progressive, Joyce Beatty, but she's only "leaning" towards a no to TPA. So the call might inspire some action on our part...

[RiverLover]

4. It sounds like MoveOn, DFA, and Working Families Party are going with backing the progressive

efforts of Sen Warren, and that is the purpose for the call. To review those causes & find ways to help her & offer critical support. The goal isn't to throw support now to another candidate since suspending the Draft Warren campaign....its to lift up Warren's agenda & make certain it isn't lost in all the 2016 chatter.

[RiverLover]

5. Warren:

"We need to fight & we need to fight hard...for the economy, for the environment, for civil rights, for students...Trade is the fight right now. The vote in the house on TPA is Friday, so we need to get to work right now....Big corporate interests are the ones who get to see/write the TPP, 85% are lobbyists for corporations...fast track needed to pass it...but also fast track will allow any president elected next the ability to push through more bad trade deals.

But trade is just one of many issues we're working on right now...college students...the cost of college is out of control...2/3 of students are borrowing money to go to college. Average $30K debt when graduate...starting out in debt is hurting our economy. Student loan debt affects all of us...(sounds like Bernie!) Lobbyists won't be fighting for free student debt or to expand social security...research funding for cancer is weak...& of course, we'll never give up on holding wall street accountable....

One more, we've got to take back the senate...people like Russ Feingold...I wasn't sent to DC to fight for corporations, I was sent to fight for people, and we need to get more people in the senate fighting for people not corporations..."

Q to Warren: How to help stop TPA in the House on Friday. "Call your congress person, facebook, tweet...make your voices heard. Ask your friends, neighbors, family. If enough people speak out, this is how we change what's going on in Washington..."

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And so on....Still disappointed she isn't running. This call is to try to make sure we're not disaffected now in our disappointment. They want us to fight with her, still. I will. But I'm tired of the uphill fight for progressive issues. She wants great energy from us. It will be very hard if another fake progressive gets elected only to continue with endless war, gifts to wall street & the shaft to the poor, fracking ongoing & growing, privatization expansions, BigAg wrecking nature, & so on. But hey, it won't be as bad as a republican!

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...She's asked how she stays hopeful. (very good timing) She shares a story. One of her wins. The Consumer Protection Agency...

The big banks will never let it happen, she'd been told...but she fought with MoveOn & more than 100 others. Huge fight ag banks & million$ of lobbying ag them...But David fought Golith & won.

We stood up before & we can against money in politics...

We did it before & we can do it again.

...We're going to be working with Robert Reich in getting message out since it won't be in MSM...
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It was a nice call. I'm thankful for it. I think. For me, it will take a while to get over the loss of what could have been...

So there's my take on the call.

If anyone else listened in, would love to hear your thoughts, as I'm sure others here would.

[think]

6. Thank you for the information on the call in. Much appreciated!

I'm glad you participated and got to hear Senator Warren's thoughts on some of the pressing issues.

I understand the frustration and the need to still be active. 6 years into President Obama's tenure I never thought I'd see things like the TPP being pushed in classified secrecy, banks that violate the antitrust laws operating business as usual, troops going back to Iraq, etc etc.

It's good to hear Elizabeth Warren talking about college and education costs in addition to the Wall Street banking corruption & free trade arguments she's most noted for. She and Bernie seem very much aligned on many of the major issues confronting America.

I would love to see her running even as a vice presidential candidate. The more people hear honest, smart politicians explain why our problems exist while providing common sense solutions to fix them the closer we get to getting America back on track for the many American people who are struggling day to day.

Americans deserve better. America deserves leaders of the quality Elizabeth Warren epitomizes.

Thanks again for the update.

[RiverLover]

7. Here's a link to a recording of the call, if anyone is interested~

http://moveon.org/warren/warren_call.html?id=120078-20108848-qfe8TPx&t=2